Hammer-head.



LEE ROY G. JOHNSON.

HAMMER HEAD.

APPLICATION F|LED-SEPT.23| 1914.

Patented Oct. 19, 1915.

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HAMMER-HEAD.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 19, tars.

Application filed September 23, 1914. Serial No. 863,178.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, LEE Roy G. JOHNSON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Miakka, in the county of Manatee and State of Florida, have invented new and useful Improvements in Hammer-Heads, of which the following is a specification.

My invention is an improvement in the class of hammerand hatchet-heads which are made in two separate parts or sections, the combination, construction, and arrangement of parts being hereinafter described and illustrated in the accompanying drawing.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a hammer constructed in accordance with the present invention, Fig. 2 is a vertical section approximately on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1, Fig. 3 is a horizontal sectional View approximately on the line 3-3 of Fig. 2, Fig. 4 is a longitudinal sectional view on the line 41 of Fig. 2, Fig. 5 is a perspective view of one of the side members of the hammer, Fig. 6 is a similar view of the striker member.

The body 1 of the hammer-head is made of two separable parts or sections 2, the line of division being longitudinal and central. Each part 2 has a curved claw 4 and half of the handle boss 5, also a pendent semicylindrical member 6 which is threaded on the outer side as shown in Figs. 2 and 5. The face or striking member 11, which is shown detached in Fig. 6, has a central threaded socket 10 in its upper side, which is adapted to receive a threaded .twopart tenon 6 whose duplicate portions project from the body 1, or from the two parts or sections 2. Thus, when the member 11 is screwed 0n the memher 6, as shown is Figs. 1, 2 and 4. it binds the separable parts 2 firmly together; as a further means for holding them united, a screw 10 is inserted transversely through parts 2 at a point above the handle socket, as shown in Figs. 1 and 4.

The socket 7 for the tenon 8 of handle 9 is tapered and said tenon has, correspondingly, the form of a truncated wedge, so that when the parts or sections 2 are secured together, as in Figs. 1 and 2, the handle is also thereby secured in place so that it cannot be detached unless the parts 2 be first separated.

What I claim is:

The improved hammer-head divided on a central longitudinal line. each separable part or section having a semicylindrical, screwthreaded terminal. and the face or striking member having a threaded socket adapted to receive the complete, threaded cylindrical tenon formed by such terminals, as described.

In testimony whereof I, affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

LEE ROY G. JOHNSON.

Witnesses:

RODNEY C. WILSON, D. B. Rooms.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each. by addressing the Commissioner of Patents. Washington, D. C. 

